KOLKATA: By his own admission, Sourav Ghosh never sold out as a comic. But when he retired from stand-up comedy, he finally got the sweet taste of having houseful shows. And he is not complaining. Last Sunday, Ghosh, along ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Twelve hours before minister Firhad Hakim rode the electric scooter with CM Mamata Banerjee seated behind him, he did a trial run from Chetla to Nabanna and back with his wife Ismat riding pillion to ensure he did ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee chose to go to work and return home in an electric scooter on Thursday, even trying her hand to ride it for the first time, and partly pillion riding, to lend her voice against ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Three keel-billed toucans, which were rescued last year, were allegedly stolen from the Alipore zoo on Thursday. Earlier in 2009, eight common marmosets were stolen from the zoo. Last year, a rescued hyacinth macaw was found dead in ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court Justice T B Radha Krishnan, while inaugurating a mediation workshop in commercial disputes at the National Library on Thursday, said mediation is a good solution for commercial disputes for ease of doing ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Calcutta University has called for a PG Board of Studies meeting on Friday to discuss issues regarding the odd-semester examinations and to ratify the decisions. Among the proposals to be placed for discussion are conducting the entire process ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education on Thursday published the subject-wise question pattern for the upcoming higher secondary examination on the curtailed syllabus. The school heads were also informed by the H S council about methods ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: IIM-Calcutta has upgraded its entire LAN cable connection to avoid network glitches during final placements that started on Thursday. Students were getting snapped out of online classes continuously, causing them to flag the issue with the management, resulting ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: All airlines on Thursday scurried to send out text messages to flyers booked to travel from Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Kochi to Kolkata from Saturday, informing them that they would be required to reach the airport ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Bengal crossed the 10-lakh vaccination mark on Thursday with another 1,17,722 people taking the Covid-19 shot on the last day of the first dose for healthcare workers. Bengal was among the five states that recorded the highest vaccination ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Kolkata Police has started posting cops in plain clothes outside some girls’ schools in the city to nab those who have been harassing the students. Besides the specific all-women Winners unit, local cops have started moving around the ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: BJP worker Rakesh Singh and his party colleague Pamela Goswami were questioned face-to-face for two hours on Wednesday night in Lalbazar with Goswami and Rakesh accusing one another of being part of an elaborate “frame-up”. Investigators say the ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The trade bandh, called on Friday by a section of traders’ organisations, is not likely to have any major impact in the city. Majority of the traders and transporters organizations in the state are opting out of the ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Unable to cope with illness, a 63-year-old man reportedly stabbed himself at his residence in Patuli around 9pm on Wednesday. The man, a resident of I-block in Baishnabghata, Patuli and a transporter by profession, has been suffering from ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Cops have lodged an FIR, naming a BJP worker, Rakesh Sahani and eight to 10 unidentified people a day after a clash took place between BJP and Trinamool Congress supporters on Amherst Street during a rally. The FIR ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Private hospitals plan to keep the charge for vaccinating the next priority groups low. From March 1, those above 60 years of age and the 45-plus population with comorbidities are set to receive the shot against Covid-19. Doctors ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation will keep all its treasury counters open till 6pm, extending up to Sunday, to enable property tax payers to clear their dues under a special 100% interest waiver scheme. The last date for application ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: A delegation of Joint Traders’ Forum (JTF), a platform representing traders of New Market and other markets around it, was turned away by the municipal commissioner when they went to submit a charter of demands on Thursday. The ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A non-government organization that works towards the protection of environment in Kolkata has written to Kolkata Municipal Corporation commissioner Binod Kumar, pointing to a recent NGT order in Delhi to keep parks free from encroachment. “We have come ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Smaller towns see higher winter pollution levels than mega cities. But Kolkata has bucked the trend this winter. In fact, Kolkata has pipped all other megacities in India when it comes to an increase in the level of ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation has issued the work order to replace the existing sodium vapour street lights with LED ones in Salt Lake and Rajarhat. The state government has sanctioned Rs 17 crore for the project. “We have ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Two days after Kasba Chittaranjan High School suspended classes after a teacher tested positive for Covid, the school education department has decided to send another alert to the institutions along with emergency dos and don’ts in case of ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaThakurnagar (North 24 Parganas): Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday tore into Union home minister Amit Shah’s citizenship promise to Matuas at Thakurnagar in North 24 Parganas, two days after a CBI team reached his home to question ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a Covid-hit year, Xavier School of Management (XLRI) displayed extraordinary final placement as all 2019-21 batch students were recruited in a record time of two days. There were a total of 358 candidates in the Postgraduate Diploma ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The next phase of vaccination involving the 60+ population and 45+ citizens with serious co-morbitities would require a massive scale-up of operations at the ground level in Bengal since the targeted number of recipients could easily touch a ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA/MALDA: Four workers, all from Malda, died of asphyxiation and three were injured while trying to work on an underground sewer line in south Kolkata’s Kudghat on Thursday. The work was being carried out by the Kolkata Environment Infrastructure ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port (SMP), Kolkata, has signed more than 35 Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) valued at over Rs 25,000 crore in the run-up to the second edition of the Maritime India Summit (MIS), scheduled to start from ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaJalpaiguri/Kolkata: A passenger train between New Jalpaiguri (NJP) and Dhaka will be flagged off on March 26 by the Prime Ministers of the two countries to commemorate 50 years of independence of Bangladesh and five decades of Indo-Bangla friendship. ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The blast in Murshidabad’s Nimtita and the recent violence in parts of West Midnapore have prompted the Election Commission to label 6,400 booths in Bengal as ‘extremely sensitive’. The move, which comes ahead of deputy election commissioner Sudip ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Vaccine politics, which played a role in Bihar elections, has now reached poll-bound West Bengal. Trinamool Congress cited the Centre’s vaccine data to respond sharply to a BJP allegation on “unused” vaccine stocks in Bengal while the state ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaNew Delhi/Kolkata: The Centre has withdrawn its order that required scientific institutions to seek prior approval before organising any international online seminar or conference. In a fresh order issued on Wednesday, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said the ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaBarrackpore/Kolkata: BJP national president J P Nadda on Thursday said people of West Bengal would arrange for inoculation against Trinamool Congress’s “corruption” in May, a day after chief minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying her ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaBHUBANESWAR: Infighting in the Congress state unit turned violent with two groups coming to blows in the presence of party president, Niranjan Patnaik, at the Congress Bhawan here on Thursday. The clash between the dissident groups occurred minutes before ...
26 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Protesting against fuel price hike, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday rode pillion on an electric scooter to state secretariat Nabanna from her residence at Kalighat in Kolkata. With a placard protesting against the petrol price ...
25 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: An ardent admirer of Mamata Banerjee, director Raj Chakrabarty had campaigned for Trinamool Congress in earlier elections. Under his chairmanship, a successful physical edition of the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) was held in the city in ...
25 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Tollywood actor Saayoni Ghosh formally joined the Trinamool Congress in the presence of chief minister Mamata Banerjee at a party meeting in Dunlop on Wednesday. The actor has recently been in the news over her remarks against the ...
25 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The detective department has nabbed four members of an Iranian gang that posed as police officers and cheated the elderly of their valuables. The interstate gang had been targeting the city from last year. The accused had cheated ...
25 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Many senior citizens who seek health consultation at private hospitals have been enquiring about when they will be getting the Covid vaccine. Private hospital administrations felt the announcement on Wednesday to allow private hospitals to inoculate 60-plus and ...
25 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: With the central government announcing the rollout of Covid-19 vaccination for the general population, first with those above 60 and above 45 with co-morbidities, the state health department has started working on its plans. Though the state is ...
25 Feb 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: A government-aided school in Kasba had to be closed on Tuesday after a teacher tested Covid positive. Kasba Chittaranjan High School will send 28 students who had attended the classes of the teacher to a government hospital for ...
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